Archive for May, 2008

Volunteer Wanted: Screengrabber

Monday, May 19th, 2008

I admit it, I’m not keeping up with my screengrabbing duties to make Inventing Situations as fresh as it could be. I’ve got an ever expanding to-do list of over 340 movies and shows bookmarked to grab, a stack of DVDs on my desk, and perhaps most importantly, The Prelinger Archives, is getting ready to unleash 500 freshly digitized shorts onto the web.

So, perhaps it’s time to loosen up the control freak reigns and take on an assistant screengrabber to help make this site the best capping experience it can be.

You wouldn’t have to find the material, just download the movies I point you at and turn them into a bunch of pictures. Your reward would of course be fame and links to your website, if you have one.

The job would work something like this… (more…)

A Capper Survey

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Go help GizM with her homework by taking this capper survey. Complete it by this Tuesday night (5/13) if you want her to graduate college. Ok, maybe it’s not that dire, but somebody’s getting course credit for it, and it’s not you!